Tom Harkin Quotes

#1. It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it.

Michelle Malkin

#2. Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Tom Harkin

#3. Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

Tom Harkin

#4. The world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

Italo Calvino

#5. I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.

Joyce Meyer

#6. Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

Tom Harkin

#7. The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Tom Harkin

#8. Write something the skeptics will sneer at.

Marty Rubin

#9. Prions are highly indestructible.

Tom Harkin

#10. You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together ... You are my heroes.

Tom Harkin

#11. There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Tom Harkin

#12. I'm like the dog with a bone who crossed a low bridge in the fable. I see another dog passing beneath me carrying a bone, and I snap to take his bone - and drop my own into the water, into my reflection.

Brent Weeks

#13. Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it.
But true rulers are not born. We are made.

Marie Lu

#14. Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.

Tom Harkin

#15. If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in
parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

Tom Harkin

#16. America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

#17. Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

Tom Harkin

#18. The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

Tom Harkin

#19. Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Theodore Parker

#20. I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

Trisha Goddard

#21. I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

Tom Harkin

#22. I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

Tom Harkin

#23. Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success
on tactical errors and pipe dreams.

David Grann

#24. While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Tom Harkin

#25. Wisdom is a seed in our brains and it's on ourselves to improve this and develop by feeding it with the knowledge on account of experiences.

Jan Jansen

#26. Her blond hair hung loose, cascading around her shoulders, and stopping over her breasts. She turned toward him, violet eyes meeting his gaze. For a moment, he lost all coherent thought.

Lia Davis

#27. I was a cheerleader for nine years!

Betsey Johnson